I'm not convinced these are real. A lot of the passwords are surprisingly cryptic - not the usual collection of bananas and children's names you might expect.

I'm not convinced these are real. A lot of the passwords are surprisingly cryptic - not the usual collection of bananas and children's names you might expect. Assuming that most people use the same username and password for most things, and that AOL users will be the least sophisticated I thought it would be interesting to verify 10 of the combinations which had an AOL address against AOL. Not a single one of them actually worked and I'm inclined to wonder whether (happily) this isn't just a hoax.